Hi Pine,
As I’m sure you can appreciate, we want to do our best to get the job posting to the
community as quickly as possible in order to maximize the amount of time potential
applicants have to give it consideration. We are shooting for approximately 24 hours, but
may re-evaluate depending on the translations we receive.
We took multiple factors into account when making this determination: the short length of
the translation (one paragraph), the high level of expertise in the translator community,
and the fact that many in the community may be beginning their holidays next week.
Furthermore, based on past experience, we know that a little over 24 hours is generally
sufficient. Again, we may revisit this depending on progress.
Best,
Elena
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Wikimedia Foundation
On Dec 19, 2018, at 1:53 PM, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Elena,
I am glad to hear that WMF wants to do outreach in a variety of languages. However, I
have a concern. Volunteers in many languages, in my experience, don't simply appear
within 24 hours when someone wants a non-urgent translation, and I think that as a matter
of courtesy WMF should give more than 24 hours' notice for a request of this nature. I
think that 7 days might be realistic. Is there a reason for such short notice, and is
there a reason that WMF cannot wait longer than 24 hours for a translation before posting
this message to village pumps if a volunteer does not provide one within 24 hours?
Thanks.
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 1:34 PM Elena Lappen <elappen(a)wikimedia.org
<mailto:elappen@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Hello all,
We are looking to spread the word about nine new Strategy Liaison positions with the
Movement Strategy Team.
The brief message to be translated is linked here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ELappen_(WMF)/Sandbox
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ELappen_(WMF)/Sandbox>
We would like it translated into Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin,
Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. We will post it at those local Village Pumps in ~24
hours.
If you want to learn more about the position or are interested in applying, follow the
link in the post. Please also pass it along to others you think may be interested.
Best,
Elena
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Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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